The following drug picture has been extracted from Boericke’s Materia Medica. This is provided here for doctors’ and students’ easy and instantaneous reference.
SOLANUM XANTHOCARPUM
(Kanthikari, Pinna Mulaka—Indian)
General.–Excellent remedy for hoarseness with cough; catarrhal fever; chest pain; respiratory diseases with aphonia, broncho-pneumonia; retention of urine. It is also a bronchitis sovereign remedy for asthma. It is a sure preventive against small-pox.
Respiratory.–Hoarseness with cough; bronchitis; pneumonia; broncho-pneumonia; asthma, etc.
Fever.–Fever with thirst; aversion to food; burning sensation and pain over whole body.
Urinary.–Stricture, retention or suppression of urine and stone.
Dose.–Mother tincture, 2x, 3x.